Network architecture and operations cover how networks are designed, observed, and kept healthy in real environments. This is where theory meets incident response: routing, segmentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Example: when users report intermittent failures, you need logs + metrics + packet-level thinking to isolate where packets drop.

CDN

Edge caching servers that serve content from near users, cutting latency and origin load.

Forward and Reverse Proxies

Intermediaries that represent either a client reaching the internet or an origin accepting traffic.

Forward and Reverse Proxies

Nginx

An event-driven web server and reverse proxy for static delivery, TLS, routing, caching, and load balancing.

Nginx

Peer-2-Peer

An architecture where peers act as both client and server, avoiding a central bottleneck.

Peer-2-Peer

VPN

An encrypted tunnel making remote endpoints act as one private network over the internet.

VPN

References

RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts — Communication Layers — the IETF host-layer requirements that define how Internet protocol layers cooperate operationally.
Network architecture (Wikipedia)

Topics

DEVBOOK

Architecture & Ops

References

CDN

Forward and Reverse Proxies

Nginx

VPN

Peer-2-Peer